Keller Regulatory News (KLR)

20 Dec 2007 07:01

Keller Group PLC20 December 2007 For immediate release Thursday, 20 December 2007 Keller Group plc Year End Trading Update Keller Group plc ("Keller" or "the Group"), the international ground engineeringspecialist, is providing the following routine trading update in advance of itsresults for the financial year ending 31 December 2007, which will be announcedon 3 March 2008. We have continued to see strong overall trading and accordingly, the Boardbelieves that the Group's results for the year will be slightly ahead of the topend of the range of market expectations. Our withdrawal from Makers is progressing well and the associated one-off chargein the second half of this year is still expected to be less than £10m, asindicated in our interim results announcement in August. Orders in the second half have been good and all four of our geographic regionscurrently have higher order books than at the same time last year. Justin Atkinson, Keller Chief Executive, commented: "2007 will be another excellent year for Keller and our strong order book leavesus well placed for 2008." For further information, please contact: Keller Group plcJustin Atkinson, Chief Executive 020 7616 7575James Hind, Finance Director Smithfield 020 7360 4900Reg Hoare/Will Henderson This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange